Murder case against Tyler Tessier dropped after his suicide

FILE - This undated booking photo released by the Montgomery County Department of Police shows Tyler Tessier, who was arrested Sept. 13, 2017, in Montgomery County, Md., on murder chargers. Tessier, accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend, has been found dead in his Maryland cell the day his trial's opening statements were scheduled to begin. Jail officials said in a statement that Tessier apparently hanged himself with a bedsheet early Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, at Montgomery County Correctional Facility, a year after Laura Wallen's body was found in a shallow grave. (Montgomery County Department via AP, File)

Tyler Tessier committed suicide just hours before opening statements in his murder trial for the 2017 death of pregnant girlfriend Laura Wallen.

WASHINGTON — Case closed. Prosecutors in Montgomery County, Maryland officially dropped the murder charge against Tyler Tessier in the death of his pregnant girlfriend Laura Wallen.

Tessier allegedly admitted to detectives he shot Wallen in the back of the head.

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